This paper has two main topics. The first topics covers the detection of volatile organic compounds with porous silicon (PSi) sensors. The second part explores the possibility of using conducting polymers as coatings for ...

Using the N-body, adaptive mesh-refinement, ray-tracing code Enzo, we studied the escape fraction of ultraviolet radiation in the early universe. We obtained data from a simulated cube 1 Mpc across of the early universe ...

Gravitational wave observatories are now trying to detect gravitational waves, ripples in space time predicted by Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, from sources such as merging binary star and black hole systems. ...

This study develops a one-step anodization separation process (OSS) after examining two step and multi step liftoff procedures in which porous silicon (PS) films lift off from their substrates. This lift-off process provides ...

In this study we investigate the effects of intercalation of graphene with Iron III Chloride on the optical and electronic properties of the multilayer graphene. While both the optical properties and the electronic properties ...

Quantum computing promises to revolutionize computing by providing exponential speed improvements to classically difficult problems. Over the past 30 years, experimental research has progressed from manipulating quantum ...

We investigate a novel method of fabricating a network of graphene nanoribbon structures. The process is a sharp departure from conventional nanolithographic techniques in both method and amount of time required. Epitaxial ...

Nematic Liquid crystals (NLC) are rod like molecules that in the absence of external influences arrange themselves parallel to each other and hence tend to point in a given direction. The average orientation of these ...

The purpose of this investigation is to identify and calculate the forces that occur on an impulsive object as it intrudes into granular media. The system analyzed is a computational model of a sinusoidally actuated ...

The goal of this study is to explore the mechanism by which unstable toroidal droplets collapse inwardly. As such, particle image velocimetry methods will be employed in obtaining an experimental picture of the velocity ...

One of the most interesting and exotic systems in the universe is a system of two black holes. When black holes orbit each other, they will eventually collide, forming a single black hole with a mass less than the sum of ...

TeV gamma rays probe the non-thermal Universe in ways that are not possible at other wavelengths. The HAWC observatory, under construction in Mexico, will be able to analyze and survey the TeV sky more completely than any ...

Recent observations of the Galactic Center (GC) have revealed that there is
a relative paucity of Red Giant (RG) stars within the central parsec. However, these
observations conflict with our current theoretical ...

The finest resolution that can be achieved in any real chaotic system is limited by the presence of noise. This noise can be used to define neighborhoods of the deterministic periodic orbits using the local eigenfunctions ...

A bright flare from a galactic nucleus followed at late times by a t^-5/3 decay in luminosity is often considered to be the signature of a tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole. The flare and afterglow are ...